18/1/2011: In this lesson we looked over the specification to see exactly what we had to do for our Preliminary Task. This was the first time our group met together and one of the group members was absent. We wrote down a rough plan of what was to be included in the Task, like a 180 degree angle, over the shoulder shot and shot reverse shot. We then shot the whole Preliminary task in this day as we didn’t want to lose continuity.
21/1/2011: In this lesson we went to the editing suite and logged and captured the Preliminary Task onto the PC. Then we opened the application Final Cut Pro and explored it. I spent some time clicking all the buttons and searching just around it, in order to know what each button did. Just familiarising and reminding myself with how the application worked with help me deal with I whenever I came across it again.
25/1/2011: This was our two hour daytime lesson and we continued editing our Preliminary Task. After familiarising myself with the editing suite on the last lesson, this made me more confident to do more editing and do more than the basics so the Preliminary Task could look as good as possible.
26/1/2011: This was our evening session, in which we watched the final product and tweaked and put the final touches on it. We then uploaded the Preliminary Task unto our blog. After this lesson we now felt confident enough to begin to film and edit our two minute opening sequence, as the Preliminary Task was like practise and helped us deal with challenges that we would have come across during our opening sequence.
29/1/2011: This day was out of lesson hours and I decided to write for the Preliminary Task, a script to account for what was said during the filming and I also wrote an evaluation saying what is was like, what I learnt and what could have been improved if we did it again.
1/2/2011: On this Tuesday lesson Elizabeth had done the shot list for the Preliminary Task and I helped her put it in a table in Microsoft Word. I then uploaded it into ‘Scribd’ a document sharing website that allows you to post and embed documents onto web pages and uploaded to our blog.
23/2/2011: This lesson was used to brainstorm new ideas and some other ideas that we had before. We made the brainstorm on the website ‘bubbl.us’ which made it look like a spider diagram so our ideas could be clear to the audience.
4/3/2011: We wrote and uploaded our Production Brief to our blog in this lesson. This is a small account of what our two minute opening sequence will be about, who is in the group, what equipment we will need, a similar researched films and other relevant aspects concerning out film. We also filled in our Call Sheet, Props/Resources List and our Production Schedule to prepare ourselves to film the next week.
8/3/2011: This was our Tuesday two hour lesson and we used it to film the beginning of our two minute opening sequence. We did this in and around college as our movie is about a teacher so this is the perfect location for us. During the filming process I made sure when filming a shot we had extra shots of one particular shot as it will help in the editing suite and help with continuity.
9/9/2011: We continued to film our two minute opening sequence in this three hour Wednesday night class. Because it was dark it was the perfect time to film the ‘dark side’ of our movie as in the final product we aim to cut from the good sides of the teacher to the bad sides of her. We again did this inside the college and a classroom.
11/3/2011: This two hour Friday lesson we went to the editing suite to log and capture our footage to the computer, and then we would begin editing. From this day we realised that we could have a few problems on our hands, as the computer we logged and captured on is the computer we have to edit on as well. We realised that we couldn’t send the footage to our emails and open it on other computers and alter it, we also couldn’t save it on a memory stick as the whole footage was way too big. Therefore, when we wanted to use the computer to edit, it would always be occupied with students using it from other classes. This was a major issue for us as we had a lot to do and we had very little time, so to overcome this problem we had to edit out of lesson hours and in our evening classes.
15/3/2011: We worked on our individual blogs as the editing suite was occupied with students, so we talked about what type of music and titles and other effects we would use in our opening sequence when editing. We also finished some of group work that needed doing and uploaded some of the work to the group blog.
16/3/2011: On this evening night class we took out the clips we didn’t need and began to edit the beginning of our opening sequence. This took some time as we had many clips we didn’t need because we took extra shots just to be save when it came to editing
18/3/2011 – 25/3/2011: During this week we used all this time to edit our opening sequence as this is a very long process. By the end of the week we had finished our first draft of the opening sequence, but we weren’t able to upload it to blog due to technical problems. We decided to leave this till Monday when we would also be making changes to the first draft to make it the final draft. We knew the changes we needed to make so it was just the case of finalising a few things before uploading the final and completed draft to the blog.
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